Steve Macdonald, DI HoF IF SAM

A Michigan native who was transplanted to Germany, Steve Macdonald has been performing filk and folk since the early 80's. He was willingly dragged into the filk community in 1992, was an early Interfilk Guest, and he has been honored to serve as a GoH at over 30 conventions in the following years.

Steve is a Fan of Many Projects (and many words...). In 2001 he visited every filk con for the WorlDream project. But alas, the album he had promised failed to materialise due to coordination, time, and money issues. We'll come back to this later...

In early 2003, he began the process of restructuring the Pegasus Awards, and continues to this day as a co-administrator (Evangelista) together with Erica Neely and the rest of the Pegasus Committee. He also maintains the Pegasus Nominees website, and helps to maintain the OVFF website as a part of the Pegasus duties.

In 2004, he began recording his fourth album of all-original material; but little things like moving to Germany interrupted the process of producing an album. We'll come back to this later, too...

He was inducted into the Filk Hall of Fame in 2006.

In September 2006, he moved to Germany to marry fellow filker Katy Dröge (now Katy Dröge-Macdonald. And yes, it's just as cool as you think it is. All of it.)

And because life was too quiet, together with Sibylle Machat, Steve co-founded the second German filk convention, DFDF (Das Frühlingsfest der Filksmusik) in 2009.

Steve had started performing together with Katy when they started dating; but somewhere around this time they started performing as the duo Twotonic. Their first album, Rowan & Storm was released at OVFF in 2014.

He also started singing with 'Barbership', the world's first filk barbershop quartet together with Katy and friends Eva and Rafael Van Daele-Hunt. In addition to that, he and Katy also formed a trio together with Marilisa Valtazanou called 'Dive to Atlantis'.

And you know, life was getting pretty good. Between the cons (OVFF/Pegasus and DFDF), his solo work, duo work (Twotonic), trio work (Dive to Atlantis), and quartet work (Barbership), he was finally kept busy.

Then we hit the pandemic.

Due to an excess of spare time around the house, Steve (finally!) released the WorlDream in January, 2021. Remember the WorlDream? This is a song about the WorlDream...

One of the things that Steve noticed during the lockdowns was the serious lack of new filk recordings. To try to fill that gap, he and Katy founded Triskelion Productions (informally in 2022, formally in 2023) to make more filk, especially German filk, available for the community. One of their first projects, a con CD for Intermezzo, was released in September 2022. Triskelion has also released live concert albums of Leslie Hudson, Don Neill, and Bill & Gretchen Roper.

In a flurry of noticing he could now finish old projects, and with a recording studio firmly in his pocket, he released his fourth studio album of original material, Wanderer, at OVFF 38 in 2022, after it effectively sat on the shelf for 18 years.

Triskelion is also producing two new albums being released at OVFF in 2024: Three by Pair O' Dice and Takeoff! by Barbership.

And, the icing on the cake - he chaired OVFF in 2023, and continues as Chair in 2024.

As a Pegasus Evangelista and Conchair, Steve has to admit that he's mildly embarrassed to be on the 2024 ballot, while even at the same time he's very honored and flattered to be mentioned in the same breath as anyone else on this ballot.

Website: www.stevemacdonald.org
Bandcamp: stevemacdonald.bandcamp.com.